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Atta Girl, Kelly! (1967)
Character: Evan Clayton
Follows the adventures of a rambunctious German Shepard being trained to become a seeing-eye dog and how she changes the lives of three masters – Danny, the boy who raises her, Matt, Kelly's trainer, and Evan Clayton, the blind owner who thinks she may never be good enough for him. Homesick for Danny, Kelly keeps running away and there's doubt that she'll ever be a guide dog. Will Kelly be able to fulfill her destiny?
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Death Be Not Proud (1975)
Character: John Gunther
Based on the book by famed author John Gunther about the life and early death of his teenage son Johnny, who died from a brain tumor.
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The Body Said No! (1950)
Character: Robin King
A cabaret artist sees on her television set after viewing hours, a plot being discussed to murder Michael Rennie. Although her friends are sceptical she warns Rennie, but things are not what they seem.
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The Matchmaker (1954)
Character: Cornelius Hackl
Can the ever-resilient Mrs. Levi melt the heart of the eternally sour-tempered Mr. Vandergelder?
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The Undefeated (1950)
Character: N/A
Looking at how soldiers injured and disabled during WWII would be helped to live as normal a life as possible in the post war years.
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Judge Horton and the Scottsboro Boys (1976)
Character: Judge James Edwin Horton
In 1930s Alabama, nine young black men are accused of raping two white women. The judge in the case, unlike the rest of the town, comes to believe that the boys are innocent and, against all advice from his friends and family, sets them free, which turns the entire community against him.
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The Rivalry (1975)
Character: Abraham Lincoln
A television adaptation of the famous 1858 Lincoln-Douglas debates, in which Abraham Lincoln did verbal battle with Stephen Douglas, his opponent for a U.S. Senate seat, over the issue of slavery.
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The Man Who Found the Money (1960)
Character: William Benson
A teacher reports to the police that he found $92,000 in a clip, amid claims that $10,000 of the money is missing.
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Intimate Agony (1983)
Character: Dr. Holliston
Anthony Geary (General Hospital) stars as a compassionate doctor who must treat an STD outbreak at an upscale vacation resort. Judith Light (Law & Order: Special Victims Unit) co-stars as an afflicted resident whose heart is broken by this personal tragedy. A despicable real estate tycoon played by Robert Vaughn (The Man from U.N.C.L.E.) is determined to keep the scandal from the press, thus protecting his investment.
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Ordeal (1973)
Character: Richard Damian
Left to die in the desert by his wife and her lover, a businessman fights to survive and get his revenge.
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Christmas Eve (1986)
Character: Andrew Kingsley
Story of a well-to-do elderly woman, who befriends the homeless and volunteers her time with children, who learns she has an incurable illness and wants desperately to reunite her three grown grand children (who are scattered across the U.S. living their own lives), with their estranged father, her son. She hires a private detective to search for them so as to try to get everyone together on Christmas Eve.
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Tell Me My Name (1977)
Character: Porter McPhail
Based on the book by Mary Carter, "Tell Me My Name" is about a girl's visit to the woman who gave her up for adoption 19 years earlier. The adoption was a secret which now threatens to destroy the entire family.
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Born Yesterday (1956)
Character: Paul Verrall
A rich junk dealer hires a tutor to teach his brassy lover proper etiquette, he is beginning to move up in the world, so, he wants her to be a little less uncouth. As long as she doesn't start thinking. However, that ended with unexpected results.
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The Ordeal of Dr. Mudd (1980)
Character: General Thomas Ewing
The story of the doctor who faced charges of conspiracy after he assisted John Wilkes Booth by setting his broken leg after he had assassinated Abraham Lincoln.
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The Desperate Hours (1967)
Character: Dan Hilliard
The Hilliards are a middle class family whose lives are put in danger when escaped convict Glenn Griffin invades their home. Griffin is crazed, tormenting the Hilliards with his meek brother Hank and sadistic Robish.
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Tomorrow's Child (1982)
Character: Dr. Glenn Gorham
The wife of a research geneticist agrees to the experimental procedure of a 'test-tube baby' by having her fetus brought to full term in a glass jar in a laboratory.
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Riel (1979)
Character: Taylor
A film about the history and fate of the Metis rebel leader who opposed the Canadian government in two seperate rebellions.
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The Other Man (1970)
Character: Paul Maitland
The neglected wife of an ambitious district attorney starts an affair with an ex-convict he had sent to prison. When her lover is found murdered, she begins to suspect that her husband did it.
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The Return of Frank Cannon (1980)
Character: Dr. Curtis McDonald
Private detective Frank Cannon comes out of retirement to investigate an old friend and Army Intelligence colleague's death, which has been ruled a suicide, but which smells like murder.
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A Bridge Too Far (1977)
Character: U.S. Medical Colonel
The story of Operation Market Garden—a failed attempt by the allies in the latter stages of WWII to end the war quickly by securing three bridges in Holland allowing access over the Rhine into Germany. A combination of poor allied intelligence and the presence of two crack German panzer divisions meant that the final part of this operation (the bridge in Arnhem over the Rhine) was doomed to failure.
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In the Cool of the Day (1963)
Character: Sam Bonner
After he mends a marital rift between a vacationing young couple, the bored, fragile wife falls hopelessly in love with the husband's ex-colleague who is married to a long-suffering and emotionally and physically scarred woman. The couple soon runs off to Greece together to pursue the romance.
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A Day to Remember (1953)
Character: Al
A group of men from a London pub are going on a darts team outing to Boulogne. Various members of the party have different reasons for going and get involved in various adventures.
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Murder in Space (1985)
Character: Vice-President
Set in the "not-so-distant future", the crew of an international space station are set to return triumphantly to Earth, until someone starts killing the other crew members.
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The Young Doctors (1961)
Character: Tomaselli
An aging doctor's resentment of his young assistant could lead to tragedy.
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Butch and Sundance: The Early Days (1979)
Character: Governor (uncredited)
Before the adventures that made them legends, they were charming mastermind Robert Leroy Parker, alias Butch Cassidy, and crack-shot outlaw Harry Alonzo Longabaugh, soon to be known as The Sundance Kid. This is the 'prequel' of how they met, their first clumsy robberies, the heroic dangers that abound them together, the secret that nearly tore them apart, and the impossible train heist that made them notorious for life. Saddle up and ride with the showdowns, shootouts, bad guys and good times in the days before the fame when fun was the name of the game.
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I Was a Male War Bride (1949)
Character: Dependents Clearing Officer (uncredited)
After marrying an American lieutenant with whom he was assigned to work in post-war Germany, a French captain attempts to find a way to accompany her back to the States under the terms of the War Bride Act.
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Scarlet Thread (1951)
Character: Shaw
Tale of Cambridge college exploits of two smash-and-grab thieves on the run.
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Rabbit, Run (1970)
Character: Jack Eccles
Harry "Rabbit" Angstrom comes home one day from his dead-end job to find his pregnant wife Janice asleep, splayed in front of the TV, highball glass in hand. After a moment's contemplation, he decides to leave. Taking his coat and car keys, he's off and running on a rambling, aimless journey.
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The Andromeda Strain (1971)
Character: Dr. Jeremy Stone
When virtually all of the residents of Piedmont, New Mexico, are found dead after the return to Earth of a space satellite, the head of the US Air Force's Project Scoop declares an emergency. A group of eminent scientists led by Dr. Jeremy Stone scramble to a secure laboratory and try to first isolate the life form while determining why two people from Piedmont - an old alcoholic and a six-month-old baby - survived. The scientists methodically study the alien life form unaware that it has already mutated and presents a far greater danger in the lab, which is equipped with a nuclear self-destruct device designed to prevent the escape of dangerous biological agents.
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The Killer Elite (1975)
Character: Cap Collis
Mike Locken is one of the principal members of a group of freelance spies. A significant portion of their work is for the CIA, and while on a case for them one of his friends turns on him and shoots him in the elbow and knee. His assignment, to protect someone, goes down in flames. He is nearly crippled, but with braces is able to again become mobile. For revenge as much as anything else, Mike goes after his ex-friend.
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The Amateur (1981)
Character: Brewer
A researcher for the CIA who convinces his superiors to send him to the eastern bloc in order to avenge the murder of his wife by enemy agents discovers a web of deception underneath his wife's death.
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The Deep Blue Sea (1955)
Character: Jackie Jackson
A woman is unhappy in her marriage to a boring, stiff judge, so she takes up with a wild-living RAF pilot, who ends up being more than she can handle.
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The Pursuit of Happiness (1971)
Character: John Popper
William Popper is the son of a stockbroker and is thoroughly disenchanted with "the system." So much so that even though he can prove that he ran over a woman in his car entirely by accident, he accepts a sentence for manslaughter.
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Penny Princess (1952)
Character: Representative of Johnson K. Johnson (uncredited)
A tiny European country which for years has survived financially only through evading its bills and smuggling is finally facing bankruptcy, when a rich American agrees to save the place by buying it. But before, the deal is closed, he dies. His nearest relative and heir turns out to be a young woman with high ethical and democratic standards, but no experience with money, or affairs of state, or Europe. A charming young English visitor helps her to muddle through. Comedy and romance follow.
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The Champ (1979)
Character: Mike
Billy used to be a great boxer, but he's settled into a hardscrabble life that revolves around drinking, training horses, and the one bright spot in his existence — his young son, T.J. Although Billy has had custody of T.J. since his wife, Annie, left the family years ago, her return prompts a new struggle for the former fighter. Determined to hold on to his son, Billy gets back into the ring to try and recapture his past success.
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The Guardian (1984)
Character: Dr. Phil Julian
The residents of a New York apartment building are shocked when one of them is shot during a burgulary. They decide to hire a security expert to patrol the building, but he seem a little over-committed to his work.
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Moment to Moment (1966)
Character: Neil Stanton
When an erring wife's supposedly dead lover turns up an amnesiac, it's her unsuspecting shrink husband who's enlisted to get those memories back.
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Angel Dusted (1981)
Character: Michael Eaton
Cautionary anti-drug film based on a true story about the effects on Jean Stapleton and Arthur Hill when their teenage son (John Putch, Stapleton's real-life son) gets spaced out on a marijuana joint laced with PCP, or "angel dust," and the family is forced to wrestle with the crisis.
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The Crowded Day (1954)
Character: Alice's Escort
One day in the lives and loves of the staff in a large department store.
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The Chairman (1969)
Character: Shelby
An American scientist is sent to Red China to steal the formula for a newly developed agricultural enzyme. What he is not told by his bosses is that a micro-sized bomb has been planted in his brain so that should the mission ever look likely to fail, he can be eliminated at the push of a button!
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Salute the Toff (1952)
Character: Ted Harrison
The Toff solves the mystery of a missing employer. One of the BFi's most wanted films.
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Petulia (1968)
Character: Barney
Dr. Archie Bollen is having a midlife crisis. He's just divorced his wife and is establishing a new life for himself. One night, he catches the eye of Petulia Danner, a charming, free-spirited young woman. Petulia's vibrant personality hides her fear of her abusive husband, David, whose father is a powerful society figure. As Petulia and Archie's feelings for each other grow, they must decide what it is they truly want.
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Futureworld (1976)
Character: Dr. Duffy
Two years after the Westworld tragedy in the Delos amusement park, the corporate owners have reopened the park following over $1 billion in safety and other improvements. For publicity purposes, reporters Chuck Browning and Tracy Ballard are invited to review the park. Just prior to arriving, however, Browning is given a clue by a dying man that something is amiss.
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Harper (1966)
Character: Albert Graves
Harper is a cynical private eye in the best tradition of Bogart. He even has Bogie's Baby hiring him to find her missing husband, getting involved along the way with an assortment of unsavory characters and an illegal-alien smuggling ring.
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The Ugly American (1963)
Character: Grainger
An intelligent, articulate scholar, Harrison MacWhite, survives a hostile Senate confirmation hearing at the hands of conservatives to become ambassador to Sarkan, a southeast Asian country where civil war threatens a tense peace. Despite his knowledge, once he's there, MacWhite sees only a dichotomy between the U.S. and Communism. He can't accept that anti-American sentiment might be a longing for self-determination and nationalism. So, he breaks from his friend Deong, a local opposition leader, ignores a foreman's advice about slowing the building of a road, and tries to muscle ahead. What price must the country and his friends pay for him to get some sense?
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Making Love (1982)
Character: Henry
A perfect typical LA couple find their happily-ever-after life broken when the husband confronts his long-repressed attraction for other men.
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Churchill and the Generals (1979)
Character: President Franklin D. Roosevelt
The complicated relationship between Winston Churchill and the leaders of the British army during World War II.
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One Magic Christmas (1985)
Character: Caleb Grainger
Ginny Grainger, a young mother, rediscovers the joy and beauty of Christmas, thanks to the unshakable faith of her six-year-old daughter Abbie and Gideon, Ginny's very own guardian angel.
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Dirty Tricks (1981)
Character: Professor Prosser
A Harvard University student finds a strange letter that seems to be signed by George Washington. When trying to contact an expert (Prof. Chandler) to authenticate it, he is murdered but the letter disappears. Then Chandler, who does not know anything about the case, gets chased by the mafia and haunted by a TV reporter (Polly Bishop).
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A Fine Mess (1986)
Character: (uncredited)
Two friends discover a plot to fix a horse race and try to capitalize on it, but soon have to deal with the two men who fixed it, the police investigating it, and the mob boss whose amorous wife is mixed up in it.
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The Golden Handshake (1973)
Character: N/A
Arthur Hill stars in the CBC-TV drama The Golden Handshake, filmed in Toronto. Play concerns the plight of an unemployed executive. With Hill are Norman Allin, and Ron Weyman. TV Movie, 1973
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Prototype (1983)
Character: Gen. Keating
An intelligent android (Michael) constructed by a research team is taken outdoors and successfully passed off as human in a trial run. When the government hears of this, they order their own set of tests in Washington. When the project leader realizes the military want the android for a soldier, he can't accept it, and he and Michael go into hiding to avoid their clutches.
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キタキツネ物語 (1978)
Character: Narrator (voice)
Director Koreyoshi Kurahara chronicles a year in the lives of Flep and Leila, two foxes living in Hokkaido, Japan's northernmost island, where the freezing winters are long and the mild summers short. After Flep defeats another male fox to become Leila's lifelong partner, they mate and raise a litter of five kits. With their family complete, the group must contend with human interference in their habitat, such as chicken farms and snowmobiles, and struggle against the debilitating cold of winter. The animals experience both triumph and tragedy, as the law of this harsh land proves – only the strong survive.
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Something Wicked This Way Comes (1983)
Character: Narrator (voice)
In a small American town, a diabolical circus arrives, granting wishes for the townsfolk, but twisted as only the esteemed Mr. Dark can make them. Can two young boys overcome the worst the devil himself can deal out?
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Don't Let the Angels Fall (1969)
Character: Robert
The lives of a businessman and his family begin to spiral downward after he has an affair at an insurance convention.
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A Little Romance (1979)
Character: Richard King
Intellectually precocious teenager Lauren King lives in Paris with her somewhat ditzy mother. On a movie set, she strikes up a friendship with teenage film buff Daniel Michon. After Lauren's mother forbids her to date the outspoken Daniel, the young lovebirds team up with eccentric pickpocket Julius to run away to Venice, where, according to legend, a couple who kiss under the Bridge of Sighs will stay together forever.
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